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I did not understand why people would ask whose children my father was walking with, so I started asking questions

— Margaret Mensah-Williams

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It carried black men from the north who were migrant workers. White people, who were the oppressors at the time, would stand there and they would call: ‘Number 5, Number 20…’

That, I think, galvanised me, and I said to myself: ‘I am going to become a lawmaker one day.’ That is where the passion started

I made history and now it gives me tremendous peace and happiness to contribute to the moulding and grooming of other women to also become members of the top echelon of our society.

The way we women argue, the way we make laws, is different from the way men parliamentarians do it most of the time, because we think with our heads but we feel with our hearts

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